Major A. L. Holt, MBE, MC (1896–1971) was a British military officer and explorer.
In 1921 Holt was involved in creating a track across the Syrian Desert from Baghdad to the eastern edge of the Harrat al-Sham in Jordan, which was to act as a guide track for the pilots of the Cairo – Baghdad air route.
[3] Holt traveled on occasion with St. John Philby and Gerard Leachman.
In 1923 he proposed a route for a trans-Arabian railway which he had personally surveyed in 1922 by automobile.
He writes, I have taken a convoy of Fords 350 miles in the desert without touching water.